Description

Kit Features:

• Replica of the tile structure
• Detailed cockpit
• Cockpit canopy optionally removable
• 2 crew figures
• Opening cargo bay doors
• Detailed landing gear
• Movable rudder
• Removable ESA space laboratory
• Movable transport arm (loading arm)
• Thrust nozzles
• Super decal with the identifiers of the space shuttles Columbia, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour

Developed by the US Space Agency NASA the "Space Shuttle" was for a long time the only reusable space transport system in the world. It consisted of the components - Space Shuttle (Orbiter) with three reusable main engines, an external fuel tank and two solid fuel booster rockets with a total launch thrust of 12.46 MN (1,270,566 kp). The space shuttle was able to simultaneously bring a payload of 24.5 tons and 7 astronauts into a low earth orbit between 200 and 650 kilometres. The first launch of a Space Shuttle into space took place on 12 April 1981 with the space shuttle "Columbia".